Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature

Cover\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nSeries Editor’s Introduction\nIntroduction. Wallace and the World\n	“Territorial reconfigurations”: Wallace and world literary space\n1. Wallace and World Literature\n	A genealogy of world literature\n	Resisting Bloom’s “Influenza”: Influence and intertextuality\n	An Emersonian pragmatist: Wallace’s global quotations\n2. Wallace and Latin America\n	“The wacko Latins”: Manuel Puig and the lure of Latin- American experimentalists\n	Depoliticizing Manuel Puig and Jamaica Kincaid\n	Code-scrambling Borges\n	Programming literary influence\n3. Wallace and Russia\n	Wallace’s Dostoevsky obsession\n	Retelling The Death of Ivan Ilyich in “Good Old Neon”\n	Holographic influence\n4. Wallace and Eastern Europe: Kafka and Others\n	High art precedents: Wallace and the European literary tradition\n	Posthumanizing Kafka\n	Wallace’s Kafkaesque comic sensibility\n	A literary “touchstone”: Transposing Kafka\n5. French Existentialism’s Afterlives: Wallace and the Fiction of the US South\n	“Ooohhh, the big, sexy like philosophical term”: Wallace and French existentialism\n	Walker Percy and “ontological insecurity”\n	Flannery O’Connor’s “bloody grace”\n	Americanizing existentialism\n6. African-American Appropriations: Race, Hip-Hop, and Popular Anthropology\n	The “erasure of difference”: Wallace and race\n	“Another Pioneer” and popular anthropology\n	Ms. Chahla Neti-Neti and Joseph Campbell\n	Signifying Rappers: Wallace’s racial ethnography\n	Wallace as intertextual “sampler”\nConclusion. “It’s a Small Continent After All”? Wallace and the World\nAcknowledgments\nBibliography\nIndex